9-Year-Old Challenges Boys-Only Robotics Program -- And Wins

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8. The restriction makes no sense, and people wonder why girls and women do poorly in STEM academics...

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reasons like this. Bullshit discrimination for bullshit reasons.

Even if boys do worse than girls over the summer, bothboys and girls would improve with academic activities in that same time period, shouldn't that be the goal?

Think on this, before the last third of the 20th century to today, women who wanted to be in one of the hard sciences ended up mostly getting scut work, which, in layman's terms means they did the math, and many times, did the theorizing and testing as well. I'm not saying all those male Nobel Prizes were stolen, not at all, but quite a few should have had women scientists as co-holders of such prizes and discoveries.

Funny thing is that it used to be women's work to be good at math, and then it reversed, tells you a lot about the influence of culture on ability.